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Column One
June 21, 2024
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USA Cycling announces road race team for Paris that will try to end 40-year Olympic medal drought

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"Magnus Sheffield and Matteo Jorgenson will join Brandon McNulty on the U.S. cycling team for the Paris Olympics, giving the American contingent perhaps its best chance in four decades to win a road race medal."
by dave skretta (sports.yahoo.com) (Image Credit AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Chris Froome misses out on Tour de France selection

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"39-year-old absent from Israel Premier Tech's eight-rider roster."
By Tom Davidson (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Five storylines to watch at 2024 Tour de France

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"With the Giro d'Italia behind us, the Tour de France is the next Grand Tour on the cycling calendar and there are plenty of storylines to follow in what promises to be an enthralling 2024 edition."
(sbs.com.au) (Credits not Found)
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Michel Hessman's doping sentence dramatically reduced

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"The German cyclist is eligible to race in late July, according to lawyer."
By Matt Hansen (cyclingmagazine.ca) (Image Credit not Found)
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Rémi Cavagna explodes against Movistar: "I came to the team to progress and I feel like I've taken a step backwards"

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"Former double National Time Trial Champion remains hopeful of Tour de France start."
By Rúben Silva (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Grace Brown announces retirement from professional cycling at the end of 2024

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"With a mix of emotion and gratitude, we announce the upcoming retirement of our unparalleled leader, Grace Brown, at the end of this season."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image Credit via velo.outside.com)
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Topeak RaceRocket Mini

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"Delivers rideable pressure without much fuss in a good-looking and light package, but check your valve cores first."
by Laurence Kilpatrick (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Column Two
June 21, 2024
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Matteo Jorgenson sets Tour de France-Paris Olympic double as road cycling roster named

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"Jorgenson and Magnus Sheffield were named Friday to fill the last two spots on the U.S. Olympic road cycling team for the Paris Games. Each makes his Olympic debut."
NBC Sports (sports.yahoo.com) (Image Credit not Found)
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EF terminate Andrea Piccolo's contract amid suspicion of trafficking doping products

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"Rider suspected of transporting Human Growth Hormone into Italy having previously been subject to internal suspension over sleeping aid usage."
By Ondrej Zhasil (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Could UAE Team Emirates have the strongest Tour de France team ever?

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"The riders supporting Tadej Pogačar on his Giro d'Italia / Tour de France double reads like a Grand Tour dream team."
By James Shrubsall (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images / Bernard Papon)
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Pogačar has everything going his way... except history

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"It’s an ambitious double that hasn’t been completed since 1998, but for nearly everyone, Tadej Pogačar is the raging hot favorite going into the 2024 Tour de France, just over a month removed from winning the Giro d’Italia."
By Jamie Finch-Penninger (sbs.com.au) (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
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The Speakers

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"Join us at BeCycle from the 26th to 28th of June, 2024, on the eve of the Tour de France's Grand Départ from Florence, Italy. Get ready to experience three exciting days with some of cycling's most influential figures."
(rouleur.cc) (Credits not Found)
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Footloose, for eBikes? The US town that banned all electric bicycles

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"The Village of Key Biscayne, an island community in south Florida, has permanently implemented an emergency ban on electric bikes and eScooters that was first implemented several months ago."
By Micah Toll (electrek.co) (electrek.co) (Image Credit not Found)
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Visma Nutritionist: ‘Pogačar’s team isn’t close to our system’

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"Asker Jeukendrup believes that Jonas Vingegaard’s team has the edge on the Slovenian when it comes to diet."
By Matt Hansen (cyclingmagazine.ca) (Image Credit not Found)
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Mieke Kröger wins third elite women's German national time trial title

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"Antonia Niedermaier takes second with Lisa Klein third in Bad Dürrheim."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Mireia Benito repeats 2023 success to win elite women’s Spanish time trial title

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"AG Insurance Soudal racer claims title for second year running."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Column Three
June 21, 2024
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The toughest climbs of the Tour de France 2024

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"The crucial mountains that could decide who will be wearing the yellow jersey in Nice at the end of the three-week race."
Words: India Paine (rouleur.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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"It’s also not just him in the team" - Jai Hindley to support Primoz Roglic at Tour de France but ready to step up

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"The Australian is hopeful of a strong result at the Tour. His words do not express the best run-up to the race and although he support Primoz Roglic to success at the Dauphiné, he only managed a 20th spot in the overall classification."
By Rúben Silva (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Alpecin Deceuninck renew with Jasper Philipsen ahead of Tour de France return

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"Jasper Philipsen was at the end of his contract and had the interest of many teams in the peloton."
By Rúben Silva (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Here we go again - Another Italian tests positive for banned Clostebol

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"Italian amateur cyclist Lorenzo Natali has been suspended from competition, the anti-doping check was ordered by the Italian National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO) after he won Trofeo Poggio Alberi on 30 May."
Author: John Woodson (granfondodailynews.com) (Image Credit not Found)
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Romain Bardet announces retirement - Frenchman to finish pro career at 2025 Dauphiné and transition to gravel racing

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"Frenchman extends with DSM ahead of final road outings at next year's Giro d'Italia and Critérium du Dauphiné."
By Rúben Silva (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Elisa Balsamo makes swift return to racing after Vuelta a Burgos crash

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"The Olympic dream is still there, and it is burning stronger than before, but now, unfortunately, I have more hopes than certainties."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Coming to a head near you soon? Cycling helmet with integrated airbag is one step closer to reality as POC patent approved

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"Following Hövding's bankruptcy last year, fellow Swedes POC and Autoliv have taken their own airbag helmet concept one step closer to production."
By Suvi Loponen (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Column One
June 20, 2024
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Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert to ride Tour de France for Visma Lease a Bike

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"The pair will lineup in Florence next Saturday after recovering from their respective injuries."
By Adam Becket (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Visma Lease a Bike)
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Katie Archibald set to miss Paris Olympics after tripping over garden step and breaking leg, ripping ligaments, and dislocating ankle in “cruel” fall

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"The double Olympic gold medalist had surgery on Wednesday to pin the bones in her leg back together and reattach the ligaments, and confirmed she will miss this summer’s Games."
By Ryan Mallon (road.cc) (Will Palmer/SWpix.com/Katie Archibald, Instagram)
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Laura Kenny slams ‘savage’ former team-mates and alleges dirty tricks during Team GB selection

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"The Harlow-born rider said she took the issue to British Cycling’s psychiatrist Steve Peters and refused to return to the track until she received an apology from her colleagues."
By Tom Cary (sports.yahoo.com) Getty Images/Justin Setterfield
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Vittoria Guazzini wins women's Italian national time trial as Elisa Longo Borghini relegated

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"Lidl Trek rider punished for team car driving too close."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Column Two
June 20, 2024
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'It has to be gold', Lizzie Deignan says as she eyes Paris Olympic road race

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"The British star on coming back from a first ever bone break to Olympic hopes, lessons, talismans and tattoos."
By James Shrubsall (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images / Alex Broadway)
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Audrey Cordon-Ragot scores seventh French time trial title of her career

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"Human Powered Health rider beats reigning champion Cédrine Kerbaol to the win."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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Lotte Kopecky wins sixth consecutive elite women's Belgian time trial title

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"Marthe Goossens finishes second, Marion Norbert Riberolle takes third in Binche."
By Mathew Mitchell (procyclinguk.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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New Pinarello Dogma F: The secret’s out… so is it a secret you’d want to keep?

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"Ineos Grenadiers’ updated race bike is lighter than before but the real gains come through reduced drag, says Pinarello."
By Mat Brett (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Colnago unveils all-new, "accessible" V4 based on its flagship V4Rs - But with £5,500 price tag

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"It's got the same monocoque frame and design as the V4Rs, but the V4 has more affordable components including an Ultegra Di2 groupset to make it around half the price."
By Suvi Loponen (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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There'll be no celebrations, says new road bike time trial champ after disciplinary hearing upholds his ride.

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"George Fox describes a long and stressful wait for a result after a complaint about his set-up was investigated."
By James Shrubsall (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Michael Dobbs Photography)
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Column Three
June 20, 2024
Doug Report Cycling Daily







Kaitlin Armstrong ordered to pay murdered cyclist Moriah Wilson’s family $15 million in civil lawsuit

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"The Wilsons’ lawyer said the legal action ensures Armstrong, who was sentenced to 90 years in prison for the gravel racer’s murder, will not benefit financially from a film or book deal about the trial."
By Ryan Mallon (road.cc) (picture via AP)
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Alleged Texas drunk driver violently runs over two cyclists

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"Dallas Fort Worth Airport Police in the USA have arrested Benjamin Peter Hylander after he allegedly ran over two cyclists with his SUV while the riders were on a group ride, according to numerous local news outlets."
Author: Craig Sakamoto (granfondodailynews.com) (Image Credit not Found)
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Anna van der Breggen announces surprise return to professional cycling in 2025

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"34-year-old retired at the end of the 2021 season, and has been working as a DS at SD Worx Protime."
By Adam Becket (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Cofidis rider dropped from Tour squad after signing with Visma

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"Promising French rider Axel Zingle to be left off list after he said he was leaving team."
By Matt Hansen (cyclingmagazine.ca) (Image Credit not Found)
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A Vanmoof imitator, children's eBikes, an eCargo bike with a roof, Tenways' new mid-motor eBikes, a full-suspension Shark + more eBike highlights from the 2024 National Cycling Show

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"Birmingham's NEC saw eBikes aplenty on the stands and on one test track in particular."
By Richard Peace (ebiketips.road.cc) by Oli Pendrey
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KOO ALIBI Cycling Sunglasses

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"With their half-frame design, sturdy looking Grilamid arms, and ventilated lens for clarity of vision; they are an impressive pair of cycling sunglasses."
by Tim Wiggins (lifeinthesaddle.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Column One
June 19, 2024
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Salary caps, banning race radios, more education for young riders: Romain Bardet's plan to change cycling

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"Revered as much for his erudition as his élan, Chris Marshall-Bell gets the lowdown from the French cyclist."
By Chris Marshall-Bell (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Tour de France 2024 start list: Uno X Mobility the first team to be released

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"All the teams and riders for the 111th Tour de France."
By Adam Becket (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Fizik introduces 3D-printed saddle service, with prices starting at $499

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"The brand's Adaptive line of 3D-printed saddles are set to become completely custom-made, but the advanced technology doesn't come cheap."
By Emily Tillett (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Column Two
June 19, 2024
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Tour de France 2024, your ultimate stage-by-stage guide: From Florence to Nice, here's everything you need to know

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"A first-time Grand Départ for Italy, an unprecedented finish away from Paris with a final day time trial... Le Tour 2024 could be a seminal edition."
By Simon MacMichael (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Tour de France 2024 predictions: Who will stand out in cycling's biggest race?

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"From the overall winner to the most dutiful domestique, Rouleur makes its predictions for the 2024 Tour de France."
By Chris Marshall-Bell (rouleur.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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Joshua Tarling and Anna Henderson win British time-trial national championships

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"The British national championships have begun today and we have had some big results right out the gate. In the individual time-trials, Joshua Tarling and Anna Henderson have taken the victories against the clock in convincing fashion."
By Rúben Silva (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com via cyclingnews.com)
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GCN+ documentaries to return, but not live racing, as website set to close down

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"Brand publicly acknowledges sale for first time in YouTube announcement."
By Adam Becket (cyclingweekly.com) (Image credit: YouTube/GCN)
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Cycling Ads - Saddles

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"The bicycle saddle inhabits a peculiar dichotomy of worlds - it is both the most important physical, and least important aesthetic, part of a bicycle."
by Simon Crisp (sicycle.wordpress.com) (Image Credit not Found)
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Column Three
June 19, 2024
Doug Report Cycling Daily






Cyclist says he’s been “failed” after attorney’s office claims “not enough evidence” to prosecute pick-up truck driver who crashed into Arizona group ride, killing two

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"New video shows the driver sobbing right after the crash which left two dead and eleven injured in Arizona, amidst allegations that he had been “Snapchatting” while driving."
By Adwitiya Pal (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found) (Goodyear Police)
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"My friends were calling to ask me what was going on" - Jhonatan Narváez unhappy about Richard Carapaz's comments on Olympic Games selection

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"This year's Olympic Games road race has always been a bit controversial after the Committee's decision to have equal number of men and women at the start."
By Ondrej Zhasil (cyclinguptodate.com) (Image credit: Getty Images via cyclingnews.com)
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'I slept in a bush every night in Australia' - 66-year-old completes third world circumnavigation by bicycle

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"Adventurer Nick Sanders rode up to 186 miles a day over nine months."
By Tom Davidson (cyclingweekly.com)(Image credit: Yamaha/Nick Sanders)
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Velocite Hyperdrive Carbon 50mm Disc Wheelset

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"Well built, light and aero - all for not a lot of cash."
By Stu Kerton (road.cc) (Image Credit not Found)
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